(Don’t Give Me) Sweet Love

Steve Skaith / Mike Jones

Lyrics

Read to me from ‘On the Road’ or ‘Dr Sax’
And I will be your beat, love.
Park up in the painted desert and leave me there
And I would take the heat, love
You can tell me it’s forever then just drop me
At the corner of the street, love
You can do all this and more, you can do all this and more
Just never give me sweet love.

Sweet is for kids who can’t take their medicine
Sweet is for decay, it can’t help the shape I’m in
Give me bitter, give me sour
Snap the stem of the world’s last flower
And wrap the sugar in a winding sheet
Wrap the sugar in a winding sheet
I want your love – I just don’t want it sweet, love.

They said you married young so you could find out early,
Early how to cheat, love
They say you stole the ring and then just went back into the shop
To pick up the receipt, love
You had me fooled at first – your strongest suit dear,
It is certainly deceit, love
I don’t mind, no I really don’t mind
As long as you don’t give me sweet love

Because sweet is for kids who can’t take their medicine
Sweet is for decay, it can’t help the shape I’m in
Give me bitter, give me sour
Snap the stem of the world’s last flower
And wrap the sugar in a winding sheet
Wrap the sugar in a winding sheet
I want your love………..

Hey- let them send their armies out
We’ll send them crying to defeat, love
Every barricade and castle we’ll leave them smoking,
Smoking at our feet, love
And the generals? We’ll put them out to graze
And listen to them bleat, love.
We can do all this and more
We can do all of this and much ,much more
As long as we don’t get involved in sweet love

You know that sweet is for kids who can’t take their medicine
Sweet is for decay, it can’t help the shape I’m in
Give me bitter, give me sour
Snap the stem of the world’s last flower
And wrap the sugar in a winding sheet
Wrap the sugar in a winding sheet
You must know by now that….

Appears On

Steve Skaith Band – Empires & Us

Album

A Studio Version